All music composed and mixed by Vasco Lé
Mastered by Nuno Loureiro

These Tears Feel So Eerie is the third release of Vasco Lé. His debut, You Know, Everybody Wanna Say "I Do This, I Do That". Everyone Acts Like They're Hard as Shit. But Just Stop, was self-released before being reissued on CD with Turva. This was followed by his audio work made for Andre Pipa's 'Instalação 001', In Response to Apathetic Behaviour and the All-Consuming Nature of the Violent Productive City.

Built largely out of samples that Lé has obsessively reworked, These Tears Feel So Eerie layers processed fragments with drum machines & the occasional overdub. There is an intimacy in the way he handles his sonic material & lays bare the cumulative force of contrasting spatio-temporalities. The result is nothing short of a romanticism strung out on the excitements of incongruity.

The title is a nod to Mark Fisher, who knack for smuggling anti-capitalist critique into easy-to-digest examples from everyday life & popular modernism. 'Eerie' refers to when something should be there is missing; that feeling of unease that accompanies such a failed presence. For Lé, These tears... carries this sense of absence—that emotional residue that lingers in the gaps.

While this project shares a distant kinship with vapourwave's sampledelia—its collage mechanics, blurred & pitched-down disfigurations & all-in-the-red LoFi sheen—Lé's release eschews that nostalgic impulse often present that lineage. More apt is to place Lé's musical dynamism & rhythmic frenzy amongst the language of the PTP crew (Speaker Music / DeForrest Brown Jr., KVU, Saint Abdullah) or the London-school of tricksters (Dean Blunt, Inga Copeland, Klein).

These Tears Feel So Eerie is Perf’s fifth instalment, & first tape release.